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Antidepressant Treatment and Altered CYP2D6 Activity
1 Sept 2011
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BACKGROUND: Many currently used antidepressants are substrates of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6 enzyme. In patients who experience variations in the activity of this enzyme (e.g., CYP2D6 poor and ultrarapid metabolizers [PMs and UMs]), whether caused by genetic polymorphisms or concomitant administration of a CYP2D6 inhibitor (i.e., phenoconversion), the pharmacokinetics, and hence the effects, of CYP2D6...
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